Dave Bry

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Dave Bry
Born(1970-12-18)December 18, 1970
Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.
Died October 15, 2017(2017-10-15) (aged 46)
Education Red Bank Regional High School
Alma mater Connecticut College
Occupation Editor, author, music journalist
Notable workPublic Apology
Spouse(s)
Emily Raimes(m. 2001)
Children 1

Dave Bry (December 18, 1970 [1] – October 15, 2017) [2] was an American writer, music journalist, and editor. He served as editor of Vibe , Spin , and XXL and was a columnist for The Awl. [3] He also authored a non-fiction book, Public Apology: In Which a Man Grapples with a Lifetime of Regret, One Incident at a Time (Grand Central, 2013).

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Contents

Early life

Bry was born in 1970 in Red Bank, New Jersey and raised in nearby Little Silver. His father was a psychologist and his mother was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. [1] Bry attended Red Bank Regional High School [4] then Connecticut College, [5] [6] where one of his freshman roommates was Sean Spicer. [7]

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Red Bank is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, incorporated in 1908 and located on the Navesink River, the area's original transportation route to the ocean and other ports. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough had a population of 12,206, reflecting an increase of 362 (+3.1%) from the 11,844 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,208 (+11.4%) from the 10,636 counted in the 1990 Census.

Little Silver, New Jersey Borough in New Jersey, United States

Little Silver is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 5,950, a drop of 220 (−3.6%) from the 6,170 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 449 (+7.8%) from the 5,721 counted in the 1990 Census.

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Career

Public Apology

Begun in 2009 as a column for The Awl, [8] Public Apology is an epistolary memoir in which Bry recounted his life via letters of apology for what Nathan Deuel described in Bookforum as "misdeeds great and small"; Deuel praised the book's "slyly understated style," saying "Bry’s restraint lends his prose its own brand of keenness and charisma." [9] [10] [11]

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<i>Bookforum</i>

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In Rolling Stone , Patrick Doyle described the book as "a window into growing up in the late Eighties, when John Hughes films and Def Leppard ruled the world." [6]

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Death

Bry died of cancer on October 15, 2017,[ where? ] at the age of 46. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Bry, Dave (September 22, 2010). "Dear Joel". The Awl. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Dave Bry, 1970-2017". The Awl. October 15, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Aswad, Jem (2017-10-16). "Dave Bry, Author and Former Editor at Vibe, XXL and Spin, Dies at 46". Variety. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  4. ↑ Bry, Dave. "Eric B. & Rakim's 'Paid In Full' At 25", The Awl, July 6, 2012; accessed October 16, 2017.
    "But for us, in the halls of Red Bank Regional High School in New Jersey, it was not up for discussion: Rakim was the best."
  5. ↑ "Dave Bry". The Huffington Post. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Doyle, Patrick (April 12, 2013). "Dave Bry Apologizes to Bon Jovi, Bob Mould in New Memoir". Rolling Stone. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  7. ↑ Bry, Dave (2016-07-20). "The Trump surrogate who used My Little Pony to defend Melania? My college roommate". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  8. ↑ Hill, Angela (April 2, 2013). "Do you apologize too much?". The Mercury News. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  9. ↑ Deuel, Nathan (March 13, 2013). "Public Apology by Dave Bry". Bookforum. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  10. ↑ Lee, Stephan (March 19, 2013). "Public Apology". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
  11. ↑ Italie, Leanne (March 18, 2013). "Public Apology writer makes letter format a memoir". Associated Press. Yahoo!. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
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